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SCENE: It's a fine sunny day in the forest and a rabbit is outside his burrow tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a fox, out for a walk.
FOX: "What are you working on?"
RABBIT: "My thesis."
FOX: Hmmm, what's it about?"
RABBIT: "I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."
Long Pause
FOX: "that's ridiculous! Any fool knows that rabbits don't eat foxes."
RABBIT: "Sure they do, and I can prove it. Come with me."
They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After a few minutes, the rabbit returns, alone, to his
typewriter and resumes typing.
Soon a wolf comes along and stops to watch the hardworking rabbit.
WOLF: "What's that you're writing?"
RABBIT: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat wolves."
Loud guffaws
WOLF: "You don't expect to get such rubbish published, do you?"
RABBIT: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"
The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow, and again the rabbit returns by himself after a few minutes, and
goes back to typing.
SCENE: Inside the rabbit's burrow. In one corner, there is a pile of fox bones, in another corner a pile of wolf bones. On the other side of the room a huge lion is belching and picking his teeth.
THE END
MORAL: It doesn't matter what you choose for a thesis topic.
It doesn't matter what you use for data.
What does matter is who you have for a thesis advisor.
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